The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.
He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Music's the medicine of the mind.
An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Play the music, not the instrument.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.